All Publicly Traded U.S. Restaurant Chains

Complete List With Stock Symbols

Even though it seems like the largest U.S. restaurant chains dominate the retail restaurant niche, only about 30% of America's restaurants are part of a multi-unit chain, and only a fraction of those restaurant chains are publicly traded restaurant companies. U.S. retail diners are spending $1.9 billion in approximately one million restaurant locations owned by individual culinary entrepreneurs.

Most of the largest multi-unit restaurant companies in the U.S. are publicly traded on the U.S. stock exchange, not privately owned. This is a complete list of publicly traded restaurant companies in the U.S. and their stock symbols. This list is arranged alphabetically according to the company name.